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Finn Mackay made the following speech at Feminism in London 2013 and moved our Editorial Assistant to tears. It was originally published by Open Democracy and is reprinted here under a Creative Common...

Some very good points, well made here. By frothydragon on aroomofourown.
2011. Sat in Gatwick airport, I found myself reading a quote from Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman, in which Moran described ...

Orange is the New Black is about to return for a third season. If you haven’t watched it yet, it’s time to sit up and take note: the Netflix programme looks set to become a classic of feminist televis...

Women around the world will be treated to such an extraordinary feat of feminism in 2016 that they’ll scarcely know what to do with it. No, I’m not talking about the first female president of the Unit...

On Monday, Lisa Wade wrote, for Sociological Images, that Playboy (you know, the multi-million dollar porn empire) has been shopping around for writers who can bring some feminist cred to the magazine...

Feminism is back in fashion. As the push to claim the “f-word” has intensified, public figures, corporations and much of the mainstream media have propelled a largely unchallenging version of feminism...

As most feminists know, the Women Against Feminism blog has blown up over the past couple of days. Hundreds of women have taken to social media to discuss why they are against the feminist movement, m...

As most feminists know, the Women Against Feminism blog has blown up over the past couple of days. Hundreds of women have taken to social media to discuss why they are against the feminist movement, m...

Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader who wondered what my work might look like if I “included the feminist perspective.” Since black feminism infuses and shapes all of my politics, I l...

My years of campaigning against the Sun’s Page 3 have given me a whole armoury of retorts to fire back at the delightful randoms who take time out of their busy days to cal me a ‘minger’.
Ah, the int...

Angry cries of “where are the feminists?” resound every timea powerful woman offends women on the left. Never is this veiled accusation of hypocrisy more triumphantly leveled than during election seas...

I’ve been reading many articles that deal with the idea of rebranding feminism as of late, but one which especially amused me was this article in TIME, entitled ‘Ironic Misandry: Why Feminists Pretend...

I’ve been reading many articles that deal with the idea of rebranding feminism as of late, but one which especially amused me was this article in TIME, entitled ‘Ironic Misandry: Why Feminists Pretend...

The divides are more accurately described as existing between liberal feminist and radical feminist ideology.
Liberal feminism is takes an individualistic perspective on women’s liberation. So the pr...

If I had to pick a couple of myths about the women’s movement that are most wrong, I think two might be tied for worst place. One is that this movement—also known as women’s liberation, feminism, woma...

“Subject to Debate” is an email discussion between The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt and former executive editor Betsy Reed, now editor in chief of the Intercept, as they reflect on the state of con...

Love. This. Woman.
I mean, no one wants feminism to become all about men (because, well, we have everything else for that) but it would help to chip away at the pervasive (and misogynistic) falsehood...